Material Things of Which the Younger Generation Has No Idea

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- Shag carpet rakes

- Round house fuses (or a coin!)

- Having to pull a 'choke' knob and pump the gas a few times to start your car...and then wait until the engine was warm before driving off or it would stall.

- Evening In Paris / Soir de Paris perfume (I loved to play with the cobalt blue bottles when I was little)

- Candy cigarettes that sorta promised to make pretend smoke but didn't.

- Playground equipment that wasn't made of thick, child safe round edged plastic. Scorching-hot long flat metal slides, merry-go-rounds that broke ankles and swings with chains longer than six feet so you could really get some air when you flew off.

- Rollerball-dispersed deodorants and Maybelline Kissing Potion!

and...this guy:

...Did you ~ Or your folks ~ have this at home ?
I am assuming the quad 8-track player/titles were more yr. pay-rents , as you've been something like 11-14 during the lifespan of quad , IIRC , though maybe you had some too .










te="auntblabby"]

were you an electronics tech in the military? anyways, it is fairly obscure outside of audiophile circles, but a Single Ended Triode amplifier or class A single-ended triode (SET) is a vacuum tube electronic amplifier that uses a single triode tube to produce a full positive/negative amplitude waveform output, in contrast to a push-pull amplifier which uses a pair of power tubes to generate an amplified waveform. my single experience with this was at seattle's "definitive hifi" back in 1983 when a pair of dorm-room-refrigerator-sized hunks of hot metal took up most of the middle of the listening room, with a pair of spectacularly inefficient magnapan tympani III panel loudspeakers took up the distal end, and just to drive those speakers to background volume level taxed the 50-watt [the most powerful class-A SETs available] mono amps to their limits, generating much heat in the process. but what sound there was, was ethereal and pure, transforming the front half of the listening room into a virtual copy of the recording's acoustic venue. when I was young there were still a number of young audiophiles into this sorta thing, but today's generation seems to not care.[/quote]

Was it actually from your friend , Chap ?
Is he Trevor Thomas from Boise , Idaho ? It has turned up on my FB feed from someone else , the picture saying that's " credit for this post " goes to .



uote="chapstan"]

So a friend of mine works at a car dealership, a young person came in with an older car and wanted to know why his iPhone charging port is scratching his screen and not charging![/quote]

...I think I thought that " IPod scratcher " post was put up by you , I guess , AB . I'm sorry , especially if that confused or hurt you .

Phones that used to be only used as phones i.e. calling up people and talking to each other.

pure cameras not part of a smart phone. cameras that used real film that had to be loaded, exposed, developed into real live paper prints that you had to handle carefully.

ASS-P

yes I copied the picture from FB, not trying to say it was mine, just thought it fit here. As CC mentioned, I'm just happy I was able to cut, paste and post a real picture.

analog photo retouching techniques

Not sure if this has been mentioned - Garage doors of which you had to open, manually.

PS: hi Campin' Cat- I have missed seeing you, around. I hope all is very well with you!

crank starters and manual spark timing adjustment

Dodge & burn!

I was amazed when I found my old MD lenses & close up bellows, etc. in storage could still be used on 4/3 digital cameras. Their clarity and light gathering is still wonderful.

can you tell me about MD lenses? couldn't find anything on google.

When I was in college I took a B&W photography Art course and ended up getting a Minolta x700. Nice manual camera for the era. 'MD' was the designation for a line of lenses, 'MC' was another. With an adapter they work amazingly well on an Olympus 4/3 I picked up on eBay. I pretty much only use them for macro b/c even though it's possible, the camera doesn't really expect the user to manually adjust anything. No focusing screen, focus ring is drive by wire, exposure is best left to the computer, etc..

...As I reconstructed , for that " Ipod Scratcher " post to be a real true story it would , presumably , require some old car in the family to be passed down to a young'un in the family, who didn't know what it was , or something like that ~ Did that actually happen , or did someone decide to " make up a funny story " IOW ? That's what I mean here .























yes I copied the picture from FB, not trying to say it was mine, just thought it fit here. As CC mentioned, I'm just happy I was able to cut, paste and post a real picture. [/quote]

I've seen that nightmarish old PSA for Mr.Yuk on YouTube. I don't think he was as "popular" in Canada as in the US, but I did see glimpses of him or similar-looking faces on smiley face buttons and stickers.

According to what I read about Mr.Yuk on Wiki, only American kids must think the traditional skull and crossbones on a bottle of something like drain-cleaner means you'll turn into a cool pirate if you drink it.

When I was really young, I used to see Canadian PSA's about the warning symbols on household products. There were these puppets of two little space aliens, a dog, and a sort of a villain who would attempt to do something you were not supposed to do with the product, like light a match near a flammable substance, and the dog would stop him and then explain to the aliens what the symbol meant, then tell the viewers to "beware and be safe".
Then they'd show the symbol on the screen while a scary sound played, possibly it was the sound of the alien's UFO landing, and that part would really creep me out as a kid, especially when it was the skull. I once tried searching for the ads on YouTube, but no one seems to remember them but me.

Canadian kids must have been presumed by the Canadian TPTB to be more cerebral than amuurican kids, amenable to persuasion rather than just fright.